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by hawkice 6y ago
So far, this thread seems surprisingly concerned about whether a giant government can get its message out about how great its genocide is. I would like to suggest, humbly, that they examine their hearts and determine whether advocating geno
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by hawkice 6y ago
Distinguishing between things produced by the natural world, and things produced by life seems like the type of communication strategy that would not help a general audience. I mean, I get what you mean, but 'natural' and 'or
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by hawkice 6y ago
>Seriously, name 1 check/balance that's actually particularly good! The person in charge with executing the law is different from the people in charge of crafting the laws to be executed.
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by hawkice 6y ago
I think I'll be the one to stake out "influence within the Trump administration was highly unusual and doesn't reflect influence in more standard Republican or Democratic presidencies". I guess I wasn't aware this w
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by hawkice 6y ago
One of those was flagged, so it's pretty clearly "not-HN". The other says it's a state-run business (which, I mean, lots of people disagreed with that). That's miles away from saying something is a security threat [
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by hawkice 6y ago
"Learning and adapting to the Chinese system" and "the Chinese government is using constant terrifying threats to coerce public support" are not, in fact, mutually exclusive.
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by hawkice 6y ago
I read his comments, and have studied Chinese and China for years. While he took a pretty slight risk, (it seems) he only criticized other business owners and potential regulatory ideas. Honestly, his comments were so mild that you'd p
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by hawkice 6y ago
fwiw I do not see the banner on android. That being said, things break. Breaking in a way you can notice it's broken is good, but pobody's nerfect.
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by hawkice 6y ago
The author of this piece says he was struggling to understand complex conjugates. If you don't understand what that is, please read the wikipedia, so you can contextualize his level of familiarity with the material he speaks about. I d
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by hawkice 6y ago
At the end, wasn't the comment that he believed he _could_ see five lights? It's possible this is a deliberate grammatical ambiguity, but I think it could also be read as "I was not just willing to say it, my reality was bein
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by hawkice 6y ago
Arguably the best country name trade deal abbreviation since renegotiating NAFTA to CAMUS (I know they use a different order but this suggestion is too good).
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by hawkice 6y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is pretty bad aside from that. If you truly, deeply don't care about your customers, what difference does the way you express that make?
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by hawkice 6y ago
I routinely cancel Netflix and come back to it when I want. Sometimes I come back and immediately cancel (this is so easy that I haven't bothered looking if there's a way to do non-recurrent billing). I just don't use it that
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by hawkice 6y ago
> students really do require an experienced guide to navigate through the tangled web of concepts. Consider how much people pay for education and don't get this, and how much some people are paid to be teachers who do not provide it
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by hawkice 6y ago
It's worth considering the ancient history of viewing all central governments (including all the Emperors) as essentially being carpet baggers you can ignore if you're physically far enough away from them. So, this is the carpet-b
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by hawkice 6y ago
I mean, this seems pretty harsh. Could I recommend just sharing your own experience and leaving judgment to the reader?
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by hawkice 6y ago
Yann LeCun knows his stuff, but he doesn't provide an answer for "What is the upper bound of results you can get from just making a bigger neural net?" The most interesting thing about GPT-3 is that they didn't appear to
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by hawkice 6y ago
I mean, if you're saying Rust isn't any more complicated than _Haskell_, I mean, you're not wrong... [edit: I'd like to clarify that the Rust team has tons of talent and good ideas and can probably find a goal more ambit
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by hawkice 6y ago
I think you're missing out on the main advantage the article points out: lots of small commits, even with terrible error messages, let you use tools like git bisect to find bugs. Squashed commits mean you're looking through more c
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by hawkice 6y ago
Also, China makes very accurate maps illegal, and beyond a certain level of precision, there is an asymmetry between Coords->Place and Place->Coords, due to a munging operation they require for maps.
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by hawkice 6y ago
> It appears FB is essentially a right-wing mouth piece, idk if that is a controversial opinion, but the data appears that way, I think. I mean, mouthpiece can't possibly be the right term. Does anyone think they should forbid Fox N
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by hawkice 6y ago
You want to pay a cop to write the law? Put it under their seal, the one they use to exercise police powers? Sure, other people vote on it. But it stinks.
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by hawkice 6y ago
Unsurprisingly, this is pretty horrifying for anyone who cares about either the 1st or 4th amendments (and the 5th amendment considerations of 'you can't blind yourself to bad content stuff', that's amazingly bad). It bl
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by hawkice 6y ago
When I had the flu a few years ago, I regretted not having a will. I texted a family member how to get my things in order, as that was all I could physically muster. Then I got better. It wasn't as bad as the flu could get, but I felt
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by hawkice 6y ago
In my experience, Monad, Applicable, and Monoid are probably the only ones I'd use in Haskell, and maybe none of them in languages without good inference and general support. Pretty wild ideas, though. Fair chance they'd be more c
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by hawkice 6y ago
Automation reduces costs, which are proportional to salaries in most service industries.
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by hawkice 6y ago
If people defend it with vigor, it's probably something still up for grabs in American discussion, and not really an orthodoxy. You'll see this in modern, fresher orthodoxies, where even though most people would disagree it is ass
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by hawkice 6y ago
I think the trick is to distinguish "that's an unorthodox idea" from "you are violating the orthodoxy". For instance, here are (relatively anodyne?) statements, the first being rare to hear but unpoliced (unorthodox
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by hawkice 6y ago
There's something fascinating about a politician calling a bunch of people stupid for no reason. Like, he admits he's not good at coding, it's not like I'd take his word on tech decisions. This whole thing is so weird. Y
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by hawkice 6y ago
Yeah, a bit strange considering traditional and simplified make up two different languages in their list of forty.

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